edit web video files

is there any decent free ware that would allow me to edit you tube, google vids, etc. I've got a presentation due and I want to use clips from various online sources but not fumble through a half dozen links and buffer loads. Nothing with huge learning curve either. I'll fumble otherwise.

any help would be appreciated. thanks

Well if you want free software you can just use windows movie maker along with Windows Media Encoder.

Media Encoder can output to a variety of file sizes for the web....

sounding like a real noob but is there a way to 'save utube files. I tried a couple of times but didn't see a link and could only get streams. Any help?

mrgreenjeans said:

sounding like a real noob but is there a way to 'save utube files. I tried a couple of times but didn't see a link and could only get streams. Any help?

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its just a stream, flv format. Firefox has addons, videodownloader, flvripper etc

mrgreenjeans said:

sounding like a real noob but is there a way to 'save utube files. I tried a couple of times but didn't see a link and could only get streams. Any help?

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Goto whatever video you want, then add "pwn" in front of youtube.
Ex:


becomes:

http://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=aSVfYwdGSsQ

and you can even download the .mp4 version if you so chose.